Toward the Radical Center A Karel Capek Reader

Capek's best plays, stories, and columns take us from the social contributions of clumsy people to dramatic meditations on mortality and commitment. TheReaderincludes a new and, at last, complete English translation ofR.U.R., the play that introduced the literary robot.

Foreword

Arthur Miller

Introduction

Peter Kussi

Chronology

From the Point of View of a Cat

31

(3)

Part I: Science and Utopia

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

34

(76)

The Makropulos Secret

110

(68)

Inventions

178

(7)

Part II: The Normal and the Uncanny

The Footprint

185

(5)

Footprints

190

(7)

Money

197

(15)

Oplatka's End

212

(8)

The Clairvoyant

220

(6)

The Strange Experiences of Mr. Janik

226

(9)

The Mail

235

(6)

Part III: Elusive Knowledge

In Praise of Idleness

241

(2)

In Praise of Clumsy People

243

(3)

A Cold

246

(3)

Fires

249

(2)

Cats

251

(2)

The Stamp Collection

253

(6)

The Crime at the Post Office

259

(7)

The Blue Chrysanthemum

266

(6)

The Poet

272

(6)

Chinamen and Birds

278

(9)

Pilate's Creed

287

(3)

The Five Loaves

290

(6)

Part IV: THe Measure of Man

From the Life of the Insects--Act II

296

(19)

On Literature

315

(3)

Soil and the Gardener

318

(2)

Legs and the Gardener

320

(2)

The English Park

322

(2)

Traffic

324

(3)

The Fairbanks Smile

327

(2)

Goodwill

329

(3)

Part V: TOward the Radical Center

Let's Be Revolutionary

332

(2)

Children of the Poor

334

(4)

The Mother

338

(61)

At the Crossroads of Europe

399

English-Language Translations

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Toward the Radical Center A Karel Capek Reader

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